Thanks Damson. Yeah, I have LB Gold running on Win95 mode (could never make it work in DosBox as it keeps prompting me for the CDs, no matter how many tweaks I tried, including mounting images, mounting the real CD, etc.) and finished it a few times.
If you were able to install the game in DOSBox that means that you properly mounted the first CD.
While in game and going flying the game will prompt you to swap CD.
You can do it in different ways in DOSBox:
1. If you mount your CD/DVD ROM drive and use your phisical CD's you just swap them like in the past days.
If your CD/DVD ROM drive is letter D:\ in windows then you should put this at the end of your dosbox.conf
2. If you use disk images of your CD's then you can mount them in DOSBox in two ways:
• As a queue of 3 CD's assigned to 1 virtual drive in DOSBox
imgmount d c:\dosgames\iso\lbg\lbg_cd1.iso c:\dosgames\iso\lbg\lbg_cd2.iso c:\dosgames\iso\lbg\lbg_cd3.iso -t cdrom
it will mount the first CD, then while in DOSBox you can press CTRL+F4 to swap to next image defined in dosbox.conf file.
Note that if your path to the image file contains at least one space then you must use
double quotation marks or the image won't mount! Below is an example for the files named as "lbg cd1.iso" instead of "lbg_cd1.iso".
imgmount d "c:\dosgames\iso\lbg\lbg cd1.iso" "c:\dosgames\iso\lbg\lbg cd2.iso" "c:\dosgames\iso\lbg\lbg cd3.iso" -t cdrom
• As a 3 CD's assigned to 3 virtual drives in DOSBox
imgmount d c:\dosgames\iso\lbg\lbg_cd1.iso -t cdrom
imgmount e c:\dosgames\iso\lbg\lbg_cd2.iso -t cdrom
imgmount f c:\dosgames\iso\lbg\lbg_cd3.iso -t cdrom
Then you don't have to swap them while in game, you can completely forget about that as the game "sees" all the CD's at the same time and will not prompt you to switch disks at all - most convienient solution - I personally use it.
3. Similar to 1. solution you can use your windows virtual device instead of phisical one (you must have software to emulate virtual device which can mount CD/DVD images - for example Daemon Tools):
If your virtual device letter is E:\ (in windows) then in dosbox.conf you add:
and when game prompts you to change the CD you must mount another image with Daemon Tools inside windows.
I just want to play some of the games I used to like in the "good old days".
Regarding the different versions, I though I had the 1998 version but the graphics look like the original version. Might have to look on ebay for the 1998 version (couldn't find it in Amazon).
Be sure it's SoldOut release. I got mine on ebay some time ago dirt cheap (in jewel case).
Anyway, If I don't insert the CD, it takes me to the network window (network play) but doesn't goes much farter than that.
That's normal. It was this way so if you had 1 CD you could still play multiplayer with a friend.